The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-25
UNDER SUSPICION.

"ou huppcneu, ana lalmle'
was decidedly uncomfortable about it.
" course everybody knew, as every
oody knew everything in that delight
iui place. where each neighbor was {
friend. each friend brother; and what
tho village folk knew was this-the
miller, old Harvey Jameson. had been
robbed
"a queer business. neighbor Greene. -
said the miller. shaking his dusty head
solemniy. and telling tho circumstance
Tor the tftieth time; nobody knew l
had the money but my daughter Jennie
and young Levoe, and can't suspect a
single soul. put the money in tin
box, and put that among lot of other
boxes in the cupboard, waitin' till
could 60 to the bank with it, an 10 an
behold! when went to get it out YES
terday. there warn't q single sign of
box or money. can't understand it''
Neither do i. neighbor. "said Greene,
running brawny hand over his shock
OF untidy hair; ''neither can /. But I
DO think yc set too much store by that
young man ye've took into your house.
an mebbc ye're mistook in him. He's
deal too fine about his clothes an his
hands, an his hair. to be any too hon.
est; but cautiously, as he saw the
hush that stole over Jameson's face,
~but mcbbe I'm talkin' too fast; but it's
mighty curious. an one don't know
what TO think
'Une might try to think nothin' that
weren't charitable" said the miller
gravely; san don't suspect the lad.
it is m0re'n I'd like to lose, for it takes
q, time to earn it. But young Leyoe
didn't have nothin' to do with the steal |
in'-no more than YOU or mean To |
ruther people wouldn't kinder hint he
had"
'sIain't in nature not to think it. see
IN he's stranger. an nobody knows
what or who he is; an he has fine ways
with him, an talks like schoolmas-
ter said Greene stubbornly. IL don't
IKE to SEQ you took in. neighbor, an
I'm mighty much afraid We arc by that
mIllhand of yourn."
Then Greene babe the miller good
day. and betook himself to his duties on
The farm HARDLY the mill.
But that grizzled old man left n seed
Of doubt behind him; and when has
sucn seed not found soil to nurture il.
until its fruit hung heavy on the giant
rec which shadowed friendship, or
iarkened forever q soul immortalp
IL was not without many q struggle
against the suspicion that at last Hair
TeE Jameson admitted it with a sigh. :
Who would have robbed him of his {
lard earnings save some strangerp for
us neighbors were his friends, and hon |
st, as he knew. '
In Ialmley there was but one who
lad not been born there, and that one i
vas Dick Levoe, the stranger who had v
rossed his threshold six months before
0 ask for employment I
Jameson wanted u hand in the mill.
nd hired Dick. taking him as boarder. h
he young man had slime ways" as Il
ireenc said. "
lie was not especially handsome, but +:
Q was cheerful, courteous, willing to
'ork, and yet, for all that. showed un- b
listakable signs of having had no soc- O
aston to perform any labor, at some d
me not far past He was educated W
rem Jennie. who had spent year at
oarding-school, could be instructed by
I'm.
I'll just keep my eyes open, an not %
on for while, " thought the miller: n
but as Greene said, who else could =,
ave stole the money!" NN# ri
lie perceived no change in Dick, no
no sign of guilt; but, greatly 81
the good mans CONSERVATION, he ~
scovered something else. The young ~
an was in love with pretty Jennie, -
ID she was fully conscious Of the fact J..
Here was new difficulty, and one "a
hich the miller did not care to meet. ~ ~
lie was bordering on it one day. -.
rec weeks after tho robbery, when 10
avin of the Hollow called and paid Id
m ten pounds which had been due A.,
me time 1 ff, 1T-SS" TN
Il hear your house isn't very So g. 81,
re place for money" said Glavin with ~;
'mile; 'but hope nobody will walk In Ia.
with this while you're asleep" ;;,",l
III take care of that" answered
miller. conscious that Dick could q,
ar. IL don't calc'late on bein' robbed ~ ~
Ice by the same person; an I've got -"
d. thinkin everybody / meet is 49,,
nest Good-day, sir. Much Obliged" ri ri
ilavin departed, and the miller went IL IL
0 the house. .he
Jennie was singing softly as sbo '".
| Ill
Ia, having gone to visit sick th o
ghbor. the
Without word the old man passed u usI
his chamber. and there secreted Ca.
ten pounds, frowning as he did SO. M,
I'll send that fellow packin' soon, ~, nae
ether find him stealin' or not" he n ie
tered. 'It amt none too comfort. J Jon
Q a feelin' to know you've got to e
( up every shilling you get, am not s an
anybody where you put it," IL; az
lie ate his supper that evening in 'o.,
nee; Jennie and Dick chattering in ii,
'antly, and Mrs. jameson told about VIZ
~ ache and pain that racked the ''bt
nan she had been TO visit an
ut the miller could only wonder :
'ther or not that frank, manly face you
those CHEEKY tones OF his employe nan
'nged to knave and scoundrel. one
An Jennie and him seem to under pro-
ID one another far too we'll" he iegt
oquiscd; II us,d to like the lad, but INST